ERROR: Could not create /var/run/jabberd: Permission denied

I have a new mini server and am having ichat server problems. This is the console message I'm getting every 10 seconds. The ichat button is not checked in server preferences. A jabber process is showing in Activity monitor. I've just updated from server 10.3 so ichat server is new to me. Any help appreciated.

11/1/09 7:40:48 PM org.jabber.jabberd[31874] ERROR: Could not create /var/run/jabberd: Permission denied
11/1/09 7:40:48 PM com.apple.launchd[1] (org.jabber.jabberd[31874]) Exited with exit code: 1
11/1/09 7:40:48 PM com.apple.launchd[1] (org.jabber.jabberd) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
11/1/09 7:40:49 PM org.jabber.proxy65[31875] /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/Extras/lib/python/twis ted/persisted/sob.py:12: DeprecationWarning: the md5 module is deprecated; use hashlib instead
11/1/09 7:40:49 PM org.jabber.proxy65[31875] import os, md5, sys
11/1/09 7:40:49 PM org.jabber.proxy65[31875] /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/Extras/lib/python/twis ted/python/filepath.py:12: DeprecationWarning: the sha module is deprecated; use the hashlib module instead
11/1/09 7:40:49 PM org.jabber.proxy65[31875] import sha
11/1/09 7:40:49 PM org.jabber.proxy65[31875] Can't check status of PID 61 from pidfile /private/var/jabberd/proxy65.pid: Operation not permitted
11/1/09 7:40:49 PM com.apple.launchd[1] (org.jabber.proxy65[31875]) Exited with exit code: 1
11/1/09 7:40:49 PM com.apple.launchd[1] (org.jabber.proxy65) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
11/1/09 7:40:58 PM org.jabber.jabberd[31876] ERROR: Could not create /var/run/jabberd: Permission denied
11/1/09 7:40:58 PM com.apple.launchd[1] (org.jabber.jabberd[31876]) Exited with exit code: 1
11/1/09 7:40:58 PM com.apple.launchd[1] (org.jabber.jabberd) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds

thanks

Mini Server, Mac OS X (10.6.1)

Posted on Nov 1, 2009 6:50 PM

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Nov 2, 2009 7:38 AM in response to keith greenawalt

Lets make that folder, shall we. The folder I have is this:

drwxrwxr-x 8 _jabber _jabber 272 Oct 20 10:28:43 2009 jabberd/

so do the following, from terminal, typing YOUR password when asked for:

`sudo mkdir -p /var/run/jabberd`
`sudo chown jabber:jabber /var/run/jabberd`
`sudo chmod 775 /var/run/jabberd`

Errors will stop at that point. If you like you could check in that folder with something like

`/bin/ls -Al /var/run/jabberd/`

and you should see a multitude of files in there (within the following 10 seconds) all ending in pid (*.pid)

Peter

Message was edited by: Peter Scordamaglia

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